Francis Donald Guth

? Mass of Christian Burial for Francis Donald Guth, 85, Wamego, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Wamego. Burial will follow in St. Bernard Cemetery north of Wamego.

Mr. Guth died Thursday, April 10, 2003, at Mercy Regional Health Center in Manhattan.

He was born March 24, 1918, in Tampa, the son of August and Anna Belle (Clements) Guth. He graduated from Alma High School in 1936 and attended embalming school in Kansas City, Kan.

Mr. Guth was a funeral director for Penwell Gable Funeral Home in Topeka and for funeral homes in Quinter and Hope. He owned Francis’ Floor Covering in Wamego beginning in 1955 and partially retired from the store in 1999. For 12 years, he delivered the Topeka Capital in the morning and the Topeka Journal in the afternoon. He was a member of St. Bernard Catholic Church.

He married Dorothy R. Dorman on May 4, 1942, in Alma. She died March 14, 1997. He married Dorothy M. Bosse Schwandt on Sept. 25, 1999, in Wamego. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include four sons, Wayne, Topeka, David, Lawrence, Jim, Anaheim, Calif., and Dan, Manhattan; two stepsons, Lynn Schwandt, Olsburg, and Gary Schwandt, Manhattan; a sister, Margaret Ann McCoy, Dayton, Ohio; a brother, Clem, Wamego; six grandchildren; and four step-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at R.J. Evans Mortuary in Wamego, where a rosary prayer service will be at 8:30 p.m.

The family suggests memorials to the church or American Heart Assn., sent in care of the mortuary, P.O. Box 232, Wamego 66547.